--- title: RAISE US: AI giants back a $500m worker retraining push description: OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon are among the backers of RAISE US, a new nonpartisan nonprofit led by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/raise-us-ai-giants-back-a-500m-worker-retraining-push-dfytdyg9p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: RAISE US: AI giants back a $500m worker retraining push | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon are among the backers of RAISE US, a new nonpartisan nonprofit led by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/raise-us-ai-giants-back-a-500m-worker-retraining-push-dfytdyg9p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dFYTdYg9p.png og:image:alt: RAISE US: AI giants back a $500m worker retraining push og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # RAISE US: AI giants back a $500m worker retraining push **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon are among the backers of RAISE US, a new nonpartisan nonprofit led by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The initiative has raised over $500m toward a $1bn goal to retrain American workers displaced by AI. Working through state governments, RAISE US will fund pilot programs including AI-powered career navigation, wage insurance for workers taking lower-paying jobs, and short-time compensation schemes. The effort launches amid growing public anxiety over AI-driven job losses, with the irony that some backers like IBM and Workday have themselves cited AI in recent layoffs. Critics note that corporate retraining programs have historically underperformed, and the deeper question of whether AI will create jobs as fast as it destroys them remains unanswered. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is RAISE US and which companies are funding it? RAISE US is a nonpartisan nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo, launched to help retrain American workers affected by AI-driven job disruption. It has raised more than $500m toward a $1bn target, with backers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, Bank of America, IBM, Mastercard, AMD, Eli Lilly and the Rockefeller Foundation. _Track how AI labs are responding to workforce disruption concerns on daily.dev._ ### Which states is RAISE US starting its worker retraining pilots in? RAISE US is starting with a bipartisan mix of governors in Utah, Arkansas, Maryland and Connecticut, since states control community colleges, credentialing and business incentives. In Arkansas it backs an AI-powered career navigation platform called Arkansas LAUNCH, while in Maryland it plans to expand a service-year program for recent high school graduates into fields facing shortages like health care. _Developers weighing how AI reshapes their own career paths can follow policy shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### What retraining approach is Microsoft using internally to adapt staff for AI-driven role changes? Microsoft cross-trains its junior lawyers across different parts of the business and equips them with AI skills so they can move into new roles as their original positions change, according to vice chair and president Brad Smith. He describes this as a model applicable to nearly any job category, letting workers transfer from eliminated roles into newly created ones rather than being laid off. _Anyone navigating AI's effect on their own role can follow real-world retraining models on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/raise-us-ai-giants-back-a-500m-worker-retraining-push-dfytdyg9p) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"RAISE US: AI giants back a $500m worker retraining push","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/raise-us-ai-giants-back-a-500m-worker-retraining-push-dfytdyg9p","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/raise-us-ai-giants-back-a-500m-worker-retraining-push-dfytdyg9p"},"datePublished":"2026-06-25T16:12:05.235Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:47:42.529Z","description":"OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon are among the backers of RAISE US, a new nonpartisan nonprofit led by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. 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